September 23, 2019Angela Davis in conversation with Executive Director Vince WArren and Board Member Amanda Alexander [caption align="right"] [/caption] Join us for what promises to be an eye-opening conversation with...
April 29, 2019Abu Ghraib: Recognizing 15 years since the release of images of Iraqi torture victims April 28 marks fifteen years since media outlets published scores of graphic images depicting egregious human...
New York, June 30, 2008 – Four former Abu Ghraib detainees who were wrongly imprisoned, tortured and later released without charge are suing two U.S. military contractor corporations and three...
Action brought in Canada under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: November 12, 2019
On Episode 33 of The Activist Files , Rutgers Law School Distinguished Professor of Law Beth Stephens and University Network for Human Rights Supervisor in Human Rights Practice Thomas Becker , both...
Updated: December 17, 2020
October 31, 2014, New York – Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals granted the City of New York’s request to withdraw its appeal of Floyd v. City of New York , the landmark stop-and-...
June 24, 2013, Miami - As the tenth anniversary of government-planned massacres in Bolivia approaches, family members of those killed filed an amended complaint in Florida today with extensive new...
July 11, 2014, New York – Last night, dozens of organizations and individuals representing diverse interests and faiths filed amicus briefs in support of a lawsuit challenging the blanket...
Please join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon and Professor Alex Whiting and as they discuss the role of lawyers in authorizing the post-9/11 US torture program. The panelists will speak about...
Updated: February 11, 2015
January 7, 2022... Support for this exhibition and its related programming is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and from Illinois Humanities through its Envisioning Justice initiative. The...
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